From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: command to fontify whole buffer?
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:33:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110922143341.GB3134@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8BFD7E6B15F149EA96503B2768DFD6C5@us.oracle.com>
Hi, Drew.
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 06:32:49AM -0700, Drew Adams wrote:
> Sometimes I want to fontify a whole buffer (really). One use case is to be able
> to then use the fontification for other (e.g. code) purposes than visual
> highlighting. But it really doesn't matter why - I just want to. ;-)
> With the current lazy/jit fontification, I see no command to do that.
> `font-lock-fontify-buffer' doesn't do it.
Are you sure? I thought it did, and looking again at the fine source, it
does appear to.
> Marking the whole buffer and using `(font-lock-fontify-region BEG END)'
> doesn't do it.
Ditto.
> Digging more than a bit, I finally found non-interactive function
> `jit-lock-fontify-now', which seems to do the trick. Why not provide a
> command that does it?
jit-lock-fontify-now just calls the function
font-lock-fontify-region (via a hook) which calls
font-lock-default-fontify-region (via another hook).
> (defun fontify-buffer-completely-no-but-really ()
> "Yes, really, completely, right now."
> (interactive)
> (jit-lock-fontify-now))
> Oddly enough, the `jit-lock-fontify-now' doc is no different from the doc of all
> the other `fontify' functions that do _not_ really, necessarily fontify
> everything they apply to. They all say only that they fontify. The others do
> not say that they don't really, necessarily fontify all they apply to. And this
> function doesn't say that it is any different from the others. But it seems to
> be.
A lot of these functions set the 'fontified text property to nil (or
'deferred) with the intention that they get properly fontified later.
Most of the time this actually happens.
> Another question is whether there is some condition that can be tested to know
> whether a buffer has really been completely fontified (whether or not that
> fontification is completely up-to-date because of subsequent edits). Text
> property `fontified' does not indicate this - is there something that does?
Surely 'fontified DOES do it. If it has the value t throughout the
buffer, that buffer is fully fontified, otherwise not. Or have I
misunderstood something?
By the way, I drew a diagram of how jit-lock works about 5 years ago,
tracing the functions which call each other, and the hooks out of which
things get hoiked. Would you be interested in a copy of it?
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 14:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 13:32 command to fontify whole buffer? Drew Adams
2011-09-22 14:33 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2011-09-22 14:46 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-22 15:33 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-22 17:30 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-09-22 22:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-22 14:56 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-22 15:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-09-22 15:43 ` Drew Adams
2011-09-22 22:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-09-25 20:54 ` Nix
2011-09-23 4:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-23 4:55 ` Jambunathan K
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